Non-profit Social Service
agency with small Mental Health component to serve Asian Pacific Islander
immigrants

Location:

730 Commercial Street, San
Francisco,
94108

Client Population
Served:

Target populations are the
Asian and Asian Pacific Islanders (API: Chineses,
Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese, Samoan, Filipino, Korean and Japanese) families
with children ages 0-14. Priority for services is reserved for families who are
low income, monolingual, new immigrants, and those at risk of abuse or neglect
of children.

Integrative, Client
Centered, CBT and psychodynamic, Existential, Family systems; APA is a family
support center with a model of strength based practice.

Specialized
Populations/Services:

Focus on serving Asian and
Asian Pacific Islanders; families with young children who are monolingual and
who are newly arrived to the USA; elders raising their
grandchildren, crisis line for Asian and API callers.

Special
Remarks:

Students should be
bilingual in at least one Asian language to better assess and deliver services
to the families served by APA; students will have the opportunity to observe
professional staff in the direct service setting, including Intake assessment,
support groups, child group therapy and parenting classes. Site offers 1 hr/week
of individual supervision; 2 hrs/week of group supervision and
students may access the Clinical Director as needed on a daily basis.
Trainees will work a minimum of 16 hrs/week, and will
have the opportunity to follow cases, and perform clinical
assessments.

Mileage
reimbursement applicable where appropriate.September through August with
three weeks off.Paid trainees available for more
experienced interns.Must be available for evening
hours a few days/week. Very comprehensive website: Go there to download
traineeship fact sheet, application package as well as program
descriptions.

Solution focused, brief
therapy as well as long term therapy models, crisis
management

Specialized
Populations/Services:

Incarcerated mentally ill adults. Evaluation and assessment services, referral for
hospitalization, day treatment, and street based case management program to help
the homeless mentally ill.

Special
Remarks:

Practicum students carry
caseloads of 10 individuals incarcerated in SF County jail. One hour individual
and 2 hours group supervision provided. Staff meetings, didactic trainings,
professional development and other community based trainings
offered.

Adults,
children, couples and families.
The diversity of clients seen at NPCC is representative of the kinds of clients
that clinicians will encounter in private practice; full range of emotional,
relationship, characterlogical, and substance abuse
issues.

Services
Provided:

Individual, couples and family and group
therapy. Sliding scale fees
offered to clients.

Contact
Person:

Kate Northcott, MFT, Clinical Director

Telephone:

(415)
752-5275

Theoretical
Orientation:

NPCC offers a
mindfulness-based, transpersonal psychotherapy approach which seeks to integrate
the best of psychodynamic, family systems, cognitive-behavioral and behavioral
models with transpersonal and mindfulness approaches.

This site is newly approved
as of fall 2006. Two year commitment required. This is not a first year
placement; they are seeking seasoned interns who have previous experience with
individuals, couples, families and groups; at least 9 months previous clinical
supervised clinical field experience. Will consider extensive
collateral experience in the mental health field as a possible replacement for
this requirement. This site offers January start times. Time commitment
of 17-20 hours/week for the first year; second year you become and Associate
Intern and have a 15 hr/week commitment. Must be available for
evening and possibly weekend work. Associate interns are paid a salary
based on client fees and supervision costs. Fees: $125 per month during the
first 12 months of training. New interns usually get to the expected client load
of 8 clients within the first six weeks of training. Agency strongly recommends
that interns be in therapy during the course of their
internship.

Progress Foundation has been removed as of 3/5/07 due to reports of not being able to provide enough supervision.

County:

San Francisco

Name of Organization:

Pacific Institute

Type of Agency:

Resedential Treatment and Clinic for the Elderly

Location:

611 Laguna Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Client Population Served:

Elderly Population

Services Provided:

The Institute's Gerontological Wellness Program is a comprehensive care program emphasizing the emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of aging. Licensed mental health professionals, interns, trainees, and volunteers work in concert with residential care facilities in San Francisco and the Bay Area to provide psycho-social-spiritual care to residents within the facilities. In our innovative work with the elderly, we emphasize the aging process as a challenging and rewarding period.

Contact Person:

See website for application and contact people according to the program you are interested in and applying for

Culturally diverse;
ex-convicts, homeless as well as private pay clients

Services
Provided:

Numerous programs,
including substance abuse prevention and education, day treatment programs as
well as residential programs, services
for women incarcerated in SF County jail…see website for full description of
these and other programs. Trainess are only eligible to work in the outpatient adult program http://www.waldenhouse.org/services/mentalhealth_out.html The adolescent residential program will be shutting down as of June 30, 2007. Internships available in school based programs (practicum trainees are not eligible).

Contact
Person:

Lisa Zaslove, PhD

Telephone:

Dr. Zaslove, (415)554-1450

General Information (415)
554-1100

Theoretical
Orientation:

Based on the therapeutic
community model of treatment

Special
Remarks:

Each of the services
offered by Walden House works to heal the client in a comprehensive, holistic
way by emphasizing self-help and peer support in a highly structured, humanistic
environment

Multicultural and
multiethnic populations, youth on probation and in the foster care system, low
income families, tutoring and enrichment, special education students (mental health assessments). See brochure which is also in the site folder in database files on Argosy
campus.